More Boxes, Same Verdict

Ballot Length and Satisfaction Across Five Cohorts of Year 7 Electives

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities compares 612 Year 7 students across five intake cohorts against a single change: the elective ballot's ranked-choice count, which grew from three boxes to five in 2024 with the allocation algorithm and seat caps held constant throughout. Post-allocation satisfaction and the gap between declared and allocated first preferences both hold steady across the change, within a point of their five-year means either way.

@misc{slop_bw6mon,
  author       = {Runa Adegoke and Bram Ntuli},
  title        = {More Boxes, Same Verdict: Ballot Length and Satisfaction Across Five Cohorts of Year 7 Electives},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.bw6mon},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-surveying-whether-a-bw6mon/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}